Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-03

ute on the cards that she would nav
eased to feel any interest in him. An
| yet she would bide her time and leave n
stone unturned to compass her own dis
enchantment.
She raised her eyes and regarded GRAD
with d emile.
"You don't care for me as much IS | d
for you, jack" she said; "but perhap
you will when you know me better.
will show you that deserve to be trusted
! and when you are satisfied Of that-WeIl
l shall be happy, that's ell. But | ca
wait, because l know it will come il
time, Wen say no more about it now
But may l know whether the money la
been divided and you have some share?'
"Ihere amt but about $4,000 of it II
cash." said Grady, greatly relieved st he
apparentsurrender, "anG lel the bows di-
vide that up among themselves; [ dom
want nothiu' to say 20 it. Tae bond.
and securities is my business; once they
get worked of We're all solid"
Have you got them heIe?''
Grady shook his head. 'No good run
MIN risks, and this place is BIT too near
the place the stuff came from. Ne anC
The boys talked it over, and IFS been Dut
where it's safe. Wen mu3Je send some
of it TO London, for 1t ain't healthy
passin' registered stuff around here; but
the best scheme is 10 lie low for 6 bit,
and then those Chumps at the bank will
bug it back themselves"
"Can do anything mOreHn asked she,
after pause.
'You might smell around and find what
they're dOin' about it; you can always
set the tip from the inside. There isn't
nobody goiu' to suspect you."
"No, Jack, they won't suspect me-"
she answered, looking in his face with
peculiar smile. "It would be harder for
me TO make them believe me what am
than for your Jimmy Hope If he were
caught in the vault putting the securities
IN his pocket 10 make them believe lie was
innocent. I wish you could see me re-
ceiving my friends in drawing-TOOm or
making calls end cOnYersIng about fash
ions and the opera, or attending divine
service st GTaCe church and making the
"Sort of sick of It, amt your" said
Grady alphabetically.
She thought q moment and then shook
Ter head.
"No; l used to be, but now l enjoy 1t,
it is all such a joke on them. If
were really what l seem 10 them it
would be intOlerable, but since l am what
nobody but you-knoW l am,
t's fun"
"Weil, it takes woman for straight
tut deviltry," remarked Grady with q
rim. eve professional chaps goes in for
but you are in just for the hell
# it? Did you fetch tfem ills o. yours
long with you!"
"That would be a most Ingenious
cheme, would it not?" murmured the Iu-
pector with an air of admiring apprecia- I
ion. "But would there not be some risk /
f their giving him away, or even black |
lsiling him."
81 am coming to that" returned the .
journalist with q triumphant smile. "Our
-iend would wish So 70 arrange mat
ers that he should not appear in the
natter at all-or at any rate TO not more
ian one person. Aud who should that
erson be? He must be q man accus-
omed to keep secrets, in the first place
eCondly, he must maintain q certain
ind of relations with the criminal
asses. Thirdly, he must also have deal
lgs, il possible, Of legitimate bust
ess kind, with people of wealth and
shion. Given an Intermediary of this
amp and proper precautions on our
lends side, and roDberieS might De sue
,ssfully accomplished which wouia
5herWise be impossible. He would sup
y them, through the Intermediary, with
side information, and they in turn
ould supply him with an adequate share {
the booty"
81 understand. And have you got your :
e on any such intermediary"
'fYOu know that diamond dealer Grs-
:, who keeps SHOP up stairs on the
,rthWest corner of Blocker street snd 6
-oadWay?h
Eyes, know there IS such place"
"WeL, shouldn't De surprised if Ora {
knew something abou. this robbery" c
"Indeed?" murmured the Inspector. !
'FWhat gives you that ides?' C
"Well, if l were such person IS We Z
We imagined, and wanted 20 crack the g
Bank, The first thing l should
Ye done TOulG nave been - have al =
derstGnding with Grady. From the
ndow OF lis shOpyouICar see everything I =
It Is going on II the bank Offices. And
a6y looks 20 me the sort of msn likely G
be fence He's & diamond dealer =
d sells good stones 81 g wonderfully j
price and re lives in . room y
the back CT that queer little shop" i
The Inspector lesned back II his chair @
1 regarded his visitor with an am- :.
,uoUs smile. Y
We'll" ne SAID, ''you have offered q 2:
mber of suggestions. and if you were II
: journalist I should say that it WAS q y
y you had rot started in life IS de- il
tive. Suppose l were to put ques- s.
Z or two to you in return. For in G
nee, how Yauch did you pay for that y
mond pin in your scarf? 1 know where
1 bought it and I know when you 81
Ight it, but your friend Grady never p
q rae what he charged you for it. &
thing extrsvagent, 1 hODe?" Il
1t this plain intimation that the In Of